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CHAPTER THREE
Arab And World Developments
1-4 World’s Most Important Gas Activities
Enterprise Products Partners (EPP) started up a second 300 million
cubic feet/day train at the partnership’s Yoakum cryogenic natural
gas processing plant in Lavaca County, Texas. The additional train
increases nameplate capacity to 600 million cubic feet/day, and the
plant can extract about 74,000 b/d of natural gas liquids. EPP also
said it is on schedule to bring the third train at Yoakum into service
in first-quarter 2013, raising natural gas liquids production from the
project to 111,000 b/d.
Sasol Petroleum International, the upstream subsidiary of Sasol
Ltd., has started up its 158 million cubic feet/day gas processing plant
expansion project at the Temane, Mozambique. Capacity now is 458
million cubic feet/day. The gas plant began full-scale production of
300 million cubic feet/day in 2004 and is connected to the South
African market via a 865 km cross border pipeline.
Korea Gas Corp (KOGAS) has announced that it will invest $1.3
billion to develop the Gladstone LNG project in which it holds a
stake of 15%. KOGAS bought a stake in GLNG in 2011 with $610
million. The project has an estimated capacity of 7.8 million tons/
year and expected to start production in 2015.
German company Linde has won a contract, to be worth around
$300 million, to build a midscale liquefied natural gas plant for
Petronas subsidiary Malaysia LNG at its facility in Bintulu, East
Malaysia. The plant will have a maximum capacity of 1840 tons/
year and will re-liquefy boil-off gases from ship-loading and LNG
storage. The new plant is expected to come into operation at the end
of 2014. This new plant will allwo to minimize flaring at the Petronas
LNG Complex.
